Armed with hands-on experience of running Bishaud Bangla (www.bishaudbangla.com), a small-scale arts organization of different ilk, for over nine years, a dedicated group of artists, academics and arts admirers from the cross-section of the society got together in early 2014 to form a non-profit Trust called Chittagong Arts Trust and undertook its first project of building build a modern and multifaceted Arts Facility named Bistaar: Chittagong Arts Complex.
With the money raised, we rented a spacious apartment in the heart of the city and converted it into an attractive and intimate arts space which opened its doors on 16th of December last year as a celebration of our glorious Victory Day. We commenced our artistic activities on a very befitting day, the 29th of December, 2014, the birth-centenary of the father of the modern art of Bangladesh, Zainul Abedin, by hosting a group painting exhibition of the post-graduate students of the Chittagong Fine Arts Institute. Since then we have organized a host of other interesting and valuable arts events, both indoors and outdoors, and are determined to continue this practice in the years to come in order to turn Bistaar into a truly effective and prestigious arts organization, Chittagong can feel proud of.
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